I don’t know that farming was ever meant to be as a large of a scale as it is today. I think a farm was only meant to be as big as a family could take care of. That way you can take care of the ground.
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I don’t know that farming was ever meant to be as a large of a scale as it is today. I think a farm was only meant to be as big as a family could take care of. That way you can take care of the ground.
I don't know that it was ever necessarily meant to be anything other than the purpose it serves - to give us food. A man-made practice, it has become what we've made of it, which was, and still is, entirely up to us.
Positive or negative outcome all depends on where our priorities stand; what our values are. They're clearly in the wrong place with commercial scale farming, but with a population the size we now have, we've created a world where a commercial scale food production is necessary. So there's no going back for all of us, as it seems from here, but maybe there can be for some of us.
So, if you're someone with that ability, to grow your own food, I think it's a very conscious and positive decision to do so. It might not change the world for everyone, but it can make a difference for you, your family, and maybe help spread knowledge about the issues of commercial scale farming practices in the meantime.
I, personally, think the truest truth is that things pertaining to our individual well-being were not necessarily ever meant to be managed on a large scale by corporate entities. Everything in nature is diversified. If we really want to get down to the most true truth, it's probably not wrong to state that farming itself was never meant to be at all. But we've invented it, like so many other useful yet harmful doubled-edged things, and now here we are...
It's up to us to change it, and that's the ultimate truth of the matter. And that's why I appreciate posts like this so much, and also comments like yours. People who care; it's important that we care.
yes i agree we need commercial sized farms to support our population at this point however we need to find more sustainable ways to create these crops or else we wont last, crops or people. Thank you so much for your comment and its awesome to see people aware like yourself i hope one day i can make a difference in some way on this earth and perhaps that starts with the dirt itself, thanks again
Perhaps we should start from the ground up. Ideally, we would, I agree. Thank you as well, I do enjoy your blog and will try to resteem.
good point, i believe there can be ways to farm more sustainably there just will need to be more research in the field of organics at large scale however i have seen some pretty large scale operations working spectacularly well and getting better yields per acre than the harmful farming techniques we see all to often nowadays, thanks for sharing!